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his desire [[red underline]] not to have [[/red underline]] a job [[red underline]] which kept him in an office or near large cities [[/red underline]]
Nov 13. Here all day
Nov 14. A pleasant mild day After I got thru my correspondence went to the [[red underline]] Ion [[/red underline]] for devising changes and plans for winter. Evening at the University Club.
Nov 15. Spent [[strikethrough]] afterno [[/strikethrough]] most of day on board the [[red underline]] Ion. [[/red underline]] Cold but sunny. Cut down front part of galvanized skeleton which supports awning. Boat looks more cheerful, less "shut in" by this alteration. Back for supper at Snug Rock
Nov 16. (Sunday) Some experiments with my [[red underline]] compas [[/red underline]] in garage. Astonished to see how little deviation is caused by large weights of [[iron?]] if placed
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a few feet away. Lil Prentiss here
Nov 17 [[overwritten]] 6 [[/overwritten]] [[strikethrough]] After [[/strikethrough]] Sunny bright day - not too cold. Went aboard [[red underline]] Ion [[/red underline]] planning changes in rear cabin. [[red underline]] changing bed into Davenport benches [[/red underline]] etc - then to [[red underline]] Columbia Harvey finds hexamethylentetrimin does not combine with carvenol but simply [[/red underline]] crystallizes out. Same results with ortho and meta Cresol With Para got combination [[red underline]] I question his results because [[/red underline]] he has only heated 10 hours in alcoholic solution. There is every possibility that scale between temperature of formation and temperature of decomposition of hexa triortho and meta cresol is narrow as compared to that of hexa-triphenol